“Music is the lubricant of the poor.”
Source: No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod
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Famous Alistair MacLeod Quotes
Source: No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod
Source: No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod
“There are many things that people will do in the dark that they will not do in light.”
Source: No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod
“A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.”
“Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.”
Source: Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod
“All of us are better when we're loved.”
Source: To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story
Source: Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod
“No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.”
Source: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
“I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.”